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Posted on 12th Jul 2025

Kimchi Stew (Kimchi Jjigae)

This easy recipe is packed with spicy, sour, and savoury flavours that will satisfy your cravings.

Cuisine

Time

45 mins mins

Servings

4 people people

recipe

Ingredients

  • 300g skinless pork belly

  • 1 large handful Kimchi
  • 30g small onion,rough slices
  • 2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
  • 2 spring onion,half thinly sliced, half chunky sliced
  • 6 dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked and quartered (keep the soaking liquid)
  • 200g firm tofu, sliced into 1cm thick rectangles
  • 1L chicken stock
  • 1 sheet kombu, soaked in water (dashi)
    • The Marinade

      • ½ tsp coarse ground black pepper
      • 2 capfuls mirin

      The Sauce

      • 2 tbsp gochugaru (korean chilli flakes)
      • ½ tbsp gochujang (Korean chilli paste)
      • 1 ½ tbsp light soy sauce

Method

Chop the pork into chunks and place in a pot of boiling water. Cook for 5 mins until the scum or fat from the pork floats up to the surface. Remove from the water and chop up into smaller chunks now. Marinate the pork in a bowl with the  mirin and black pepper.

Chop up the kimchi roughly. Mix up the sauce, adding some of the marinade and the kimchi juice to it.

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